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Taglish

Taglish proper noun: an informal bilingual variety of the Tagalog language that incorporates English lexis and/or vice versa.

Proper noun

Taglish (uncountable)

  1. (Philippines) an informal bilingual variety of the Tagalog language that incorporates English lexis and/or vice versa

Noun

Taglish (uncountable)

  1. (Philippines) A particular instance of Taglish

Forms of Taglish

alternative formEnglog

Origin of Taglish

Blend of Tagalog + English.

Words formed from Taglish

Questions about Taglish

What does Taglish mean?
Taglish means an informal bilingual variety of the Tagalog language that incorporates English lexis and/or vice versa.
What part of speech is Taglish?
Taglish can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Taglish in the dictionary

  1. taglines
  2. taglining
  3. tagliolini
  4. taglioni
  5. taglionis
  6. Taglish
  7. taglock
  8. taglocks
  9. tagma
  10. tagmata
  11. tagmatic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Taglish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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